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Almost and inevitably
Almost inevitably, the two took the same vernacular name.
Almost inevitably, the Liberals were reduced to a single member, Michael Maccagno of Lac La Biche.
Almost inevitably, Operation Spring Awakening was a failure for the German Army ( Wehrmacht Heer ).
Almost inevitably this proved a difficult and controversial job, not least because he inherited a team heavily weakened thanks to the mass dismissal of most of the senior players.

Almost and first
Almost the first step in the corruption of Pip's values is the unworthy shame he feels when Estella cruelly remarks the coarseness of his hands: `` They had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, as vulgar appendages ''.
Almost 450, 000 immigrants were processed at the station during its first year.
Almost all of these " esperantido " s were stillborn, but the very first, Ido (" Offspring "), had significant success for several years.
Almost four years after her marriage in December 1493, Isabella gave birth to her first child out of an eventual total of eight ; it was a daughter, Eleonora, whom they called Leonora for short.
Almost all of the initially favourable reports Ribbentrop provided to Berlin about the alliance's prospects were based on friendly remarks about the " New Germany " from various British aristocrats like Lord Londonderry and Lord Lothian ; the rather cool reception that Ribbentrop received from British Cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats did not make much of an impression on him at first.
Almost all the neutrons created in the Big Bang were absorbed into helium-4 in the first three minutes after the Big Bang, and this helium accounts for most of the helium in the universe today ( see Big Bang nucleosynthesis ).
Almost all modern op-amps are monolithic ICs ; however, this first IC did not meet with much success.
Guralnick's first two books, Almost Grown ( 1964 ) and Mister Downchild ( 1967 ), were short story collections published by Larry Stark, whose small press in Cambridge, Larry Stark Press, was devoted to stories and poems.
Almost immediately dispatched elsewhere on Napoleon's orders, he left his unfinished work in the hands of a colleague, Hubert-Pascal Ameilhon, who in 1803 produced the first published translations of the Greek text, in both Latin and French to ensure that they would circulate widely.
* Almost always heard first in a provincial court ( although some exceptions apply, such as a summary conviction offence included for trial with an indictable offence ).
Almost three centuries later, William Gilbert of Colchester replicated Petrus Peregrinus ' work and was the first to state explicitly that Earth is a magnet.
Almost all primitive cultures had a type of fipple flute and is most likely the first pitched flute-type instrument in existence.
Troughton was the first Doctor to have his face appear in the opening titles of the show, and one of six Doctor Who actors to play two roles in the same story when he appeared as Salamander in The Enemy Of The World ( the others being William Hartnell in The Chase and The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, Tom Baker in Meglos, Peter Davison in Arc of Infinity, David Tennant in Journey's End, and Matt Smith in " The Rebel Flesh "/" The Almost People ").
Almost half of the company's around 130 patented inventions were developed by the first and second generations of the Steinway family.
Almost the first act of the new French government was to seize Ancona, thus throwing Italy, and particularly the Papal States, into a state of confusion and political upheaval.
Almost immediately, with the sudden popularity of her first pictures, she became a screen icon.
The first single of the album is titled " Art of Almost ".
Almost any material when subjected to high pressure will compact itself into a denser form, for example, quartz, also called silica or silicon dioxide will first adopt a denser form known as coesite, then upon application of more temperature, form stishovite.
Almost all the episodes ( the exceptions chiefly being the earlier ones of the first series ) end with one of the characters ( usually Sir Humphrey ) saying " Yes, Minister " or " Yes, Prime Minister " accordingly ( or " Mais oui, Prime Minister ," in " A Diplomatic Incident " which centred on negotiations with the President of France ).
Almost all of The Tonight Show with Jack Paar and the first ten years hosted by his successor Johnny Carson were taped over by the network, which is why Carson's late 1960s shows looked muddy compared to his competitor Dick Cavett on ABC ; NBC was using the Tonight Show tapes repeatedly.
Almost everyone that lives in Huntingdon County speaks English as their first language.
Almost everyone who lives in Fulton County speaks English as their first language.
Almost 1 year later on January 18, 2009, it hosted the NFC Championship Game as the Arizona Cardinals defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 32-25 for the franchise's first ever Super Bowl berth.
Almost with the first settlement in the town, Appleton Foote, as the agent of Gilchrist and Fowler, erected a saw mill at what is now Brushton, and a grist mill there in the year following, which was displaced by the present stone mill in 1823, built by Robert Watts, and later improved and enlarged by Henry N.

Almost and result
Almost all die rolls in Rolemaster are ' open-ended ', meaning that if a result is high enough ( or low enough ), you roll again and add ( or subtract ) the new roll to the original result-and this can happen multiple times, so in theory, there is no upper limit to how well ( or poorly ) one can roll.
Almost 7, 800 of the 35, 000 civil aircraft built in the United States that year were Pipers, but a strike led to a shortage of steel tubing, interrupting production, and 1, 900 workers had to be suspended as a result.
Almost overnight, Bush went from playing small pubs in London to headlining arenas in the US, the result of extensive, non-stop touring.
Almost all HIV-infected persons with indeterminate western blot results will develop a positive result when tested in one month ; persistently indeterminate results over a period of six months suggests the results are not due to HIV infection.
Almost all street cars have aerodynamic lift as a result of this shape.
Almost all newer universities followed London's lead with the result that the Oxbridge model is now the anomaly.
Almost all known packet reassembly mechanisms will respond to a missing cell by dropping the packet entirely, and consequently a very large number of packet losses can result from moderately exceeding the policed contract.
Almost all contaminates result from coke production, one of the most common industrial processes of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Almost all of the tidal creeks and coves on the Severn are named, along with many of the nontidal creeks that drain to them, as the result of a project started in 2001 by the Magothy River Association, working with the Severn River Association, and funded by the Chesapeake Bay Trust.
Almost immediately after Barney and Friends first aired in 1992, the result was that it mesmerized and fascinated many young viewers under the age of four, but was strongly disapproved by most older children and young adults, who criticized it for being " saccharine ", " sunshine-and-flowers ", and " one-dimensional ".
Almost blind as a result of disease, he attempted to end his life just before his 36th birthday, and died two weeks later.
Almost a year had gone by and a lot of money had been spent without result.
Almost trancelike, she wanders into the street and as a result is run over by a vehicle.

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